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Verily and forsooth, this jousting idea could catch on. Neither of these sides is in a position to tilt for the title but Jürgen Klopp’s image of knights in armour engaged in face-to-facecombat proved surprisingly accurate. No suggestion of parking the bus here, or even leaving the lance at home and just doing battle with the shield. There were never any horses anywhere on show but obviously plenty of Spurs. Perhaps it would not have been so entertainingly open and end-to-end had Eric Dier’s early mistake not handed Liverpool the lead inside three minutes, for Tottenham had little option after that Authentic Milan Lucic Jersey but to try to hit back. Such is their attacking quality the visitors would probably have come to Anfield looking for goals anyway but in the event, and almost crazily at the end, they managed to hit back twice. When everyone remembered to breathe it was possible to reflect on a game to savour. When Sadio Mané’s pace was bothering Davison Sanchez on the left or James Milner was going close with a shot across the face of goal it looked as though Liverpool might cash in to the extent they did when building a quick lead against Manchester City. Yet Spurs are made of sterner stuff these days and not only did they recover their composure in defence but they moved the ball around confidently in attack. Klopp’s assertion that Liverpool were always in control was not quite the whole truth; though Spurs made a calamitous start, they recovered well and refused to be knocked out of their stride. But for a timely block by Virgil van Dijk the energetic Son Heung-min might have equalised midway through the first half and the Korean appeared to be unlucky a few minutes later when he broke into space only to be recalled for offside when he might well have been level. Roberto Firmino and Van Dijk had chances at the other end before Mousa Dembélé brought Loris Karius into action for the first http://www.atlantafalcons.us.com/WOMENS-TEVIN-COLEMAN-JERSEY.html time. As long as there was only one goal in it any outcome was still possible, because no team with Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen in it is going to give up against a side as prone to defensive aberration as Liverpool. Klopp had likened Kane to Firmino beforehand, which in his book counts as the highest praise possible, yet this was not one of the England striker’s best games even before he failed with the first of his late penalties. Spurs kept looking for a way through and Karius had to be at his best to deny Son after Alli had slipped him into the area with the most instinctive of flicks, though Kane was being caught offside too often to be any real threat to Liverpool. Alli was proving the visitors’ most effective attacker, though even he let his desperation get the better of him when he was booked for the most preposterous of dives in the area. Alli http://www.officialauthenticravensstore.com/Nike-Danny-Woodhead-Jersey.html accepted the caution without demur; indeed he even seemed to indicate to Jon Moss that it was a fair cop as he trotted back to position. With 20 minutes left, that was perhaps the first indication that Spurs were running out of ideas or losing faith in their ability to pressurise Liverpool into conceding. When Erik Lamela was added to the attack in the closing stages they were already beginning to take risks at the back, leaving the sort of space for Mohamed Salah and Firmino to run into that they had previously been carefully rationing. With slightly better finishing and awareness from Salah Liverpool might have been out of sight before Victor Wanyama’s arrival had almost immediate effect, but once the home defence had been caught ball-watching after Karius had punched clear from Kane there was nothing anyone could do to stop the substitute’s powerfully struck shot. Klopp’s clown impression once Salah had scored an apparent winner – copyright J Mourinho – was in stark contrast to his anxious demeanour a few minutes earlier when Kane was lining up his first penalty. To be fair to the Liverpool manager, practically everyone else wearing red in the stadium was leaping about euphorically too – Salah’s Jon Merrill Womens Jersey goal was a marvellous mixture of impudence and confidence – yet in keeping with the adversarial nature of the game there was still more drama to come when Van Dijk accidentally kicked Lamela. Would Kane squander a second penalty? Would he put it down the middle again? No and no were the answers and, though Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino were both out in the middle talking to Moss and his officials at the whistle, the two managers ended up in the warmest embrace. Quite right, too. This was a great advertisement for both of them. http://cguniverse.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13058http://forum.ggn.bg/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=496635http://chryslerclub.su/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=41255http://218.94.26.15:90/showtopic-3364515.aspx